Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-72 release

[Xavier Gnata <xavier.gnata@gmail.com>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> The most noticeable change in this release, by far, is the removal of 
> the QEMU/KVM annotation on the qemu window in favor of a new 'info 
> kvm' monitor command.  If you dig deeper, you will see improved 
> stability for Windows guests, especially x64 variants.
>
> Changes from kvm-71:
> - fix ia64 build breakage (Xiantao Zhang)
> - ppc kvmtrace support (Christian Ehrhardt)
> - merge qemu-svn
>   - fixes suspend/resume of multiple nics
>   - adds Virtual Distributed Ethernet (vde) support
> - add 'push mem' to patched tpr instructions
> - use host kernel anon_inodes support if available
> - robustify signalfd() emulation
> - avoid losing the iothread on random signals
> - fix test for iothread (Jan Kiszka)
> - remove hypercall device (Anthony Liguori)
> - remove duplicate monitor command (Anthony Liguori)
> - remove unused function declaration (Anthony Liguori)
> - remove unnecessary change to TARGET_PAGE_SIZE (Anthony Liguori)
> - remove qemu/kvm application decoration (Anthony Liguori)
> - add 'info kvm' monitor command  (Anthony Liguori)
> - s390 libkvm port (Carsten Otte)
> - fix compile warning (Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon)
> - fix duplicate #include (Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon)
> - adjust external module for 2.6.27 hosts
> - avoid tpr patching when the stack is not valid (Marcelo Tosatti)
>   - fixes some variant of Windows 2003 SMP
> - fix extboot stomping on reserved interrupt vectors (H. Peter Anvin)
> - remove unused -translation option (Anthony Liguori)
> - fix preemption during copy_from_user_inatomic() on older hosts
>    (Andrea Arcangeli)
> - fix ppc cpu initialization (Hollis Blanchard)
> - drop shadow ptes on memslot destruction (Marcelo Tosatti)
> - improve invalid shadow root page table handling (Marcelo Tosatti)
> - simplify mmu page zapping
> - simplify interrupt processing on Intel
> - remove redundant check for real mode (Mohammed Gamal)
> - add clflush emulation (Glauber Costa)
> - fix race setting shadow ptes on i386
> - consolidate pic isr clearing into a function
> - consolidate exception interrupt vector #defines (Jan Kiszka)
> - fix interrupt reinjection in real mode (Jan Kiszka)
> - unify guest register save/restore code
> - x86 hardware task switching fixes (Marcelo Tosatti)
> - optimize vmx by avoiding saving the host stack pointer
> - fix interrupts being delayed by instruction emulation
>   - improves Vista stability
> - fix reloading kvm-intel.ko while changing parameters (Sheng Yang)
> - fix reboot exception entry build bug (Ingo Molnar)
> - ignore no-op DEBUGCTL msr writes (Alexander Graf)
>   - fixes Netware
> - fix irq state leak on ia64 (Julia Lawall)
> - s390 fixes (Carsten Otte, Christian Borntraeger, Martin Schwidefsky)
> - ppc guest breakpoint support (Hollis Blanchard)
> - optimize ppc by not saving host tlb state (Hollis Blanchard)
> - reduce ppc guest tlb writes (Hollis Blanchard)
> - avoid guest tlb flushes on guest privilege switches (Hollis Blanchard)
>
>
> Notes:
>     If you use the modules bundled with kvm-72, you can use any version
> of Linux from 2.6.16 upwards.  You may also use kvm-72 userspace with
> the kvm modules provided by Linux 2.6.22 or above.  Some features may
> only be available in newer releases.
>
> http://kvm.qumranet.com
>
It looks like the audio driver/card selection via ./configure is still 
broken. 
This set of patches does the job with kvm-71 :
"[PATCH 1/2] configure: include audio list options for --help output"
und
"[PATCH 0/2] configure: add support for audio-{drv,card}-list"


Xavier